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Prokop
Prokop may mean either of two Hussite generals, both of whom died in the 1434 battle of Lipan: * Prokop the Great * Prokop the Lesser Other people who bore the name Prokop: * Procopius Procopius of Caesarea (; ''Prokópios ho Kaisareús''; ; – 565) was a prominent Late antiquity, late antique Byzantine Greeks, Greek scholar and historian from Caesarea Maritima. Accompanying the Roman general Belisarius in Justinian I, Empe ..., 6c historian * Saint Prokop, or Procopius of Sázava (died 1053), a Czech saint * Prokop, bishop of Kraków (1292–1294) * Adolf Prokop, German football referee * Bohumír Prokop, Czech handballer * František Prokop, Czech sport shooter * Gerhard Prokop, German football manager * Gert Prokop, German writer * Gunnar Prokop (born 1940), Austrian handball coach * Hubert Prokop (basketball), Czech basketball player * Joe Prokop (born 1960), American football player * Joe Prokop (halfback) (1921–1995), American football player * John Pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Prokop
Martin Prokop (, born 4 October 1982) is a Czech Republic, Czech Rallying, rally driver. He won the Junior World Rally Championship in the 2009 World Rally Championship season, 2009 season. Career After competing in the Czech Rally Championship for four years, Prokop debuted in the World Rally Championship at the 2005 Monte Carlo Rally, finishing ninth in the Junior World Rally Championship (JWRC) category. He ended his season with the same position in the overall junior standings. In the 2006 World Rally Championship season, 2006 season, Prokop took his first JWRC win at the 2006 Rally Catalunya, Rally Catalunya and finished tenth in the championship. In 2007 World Rally Championship season, 2007, Prokop continued in the junior class and won the 2007 Rallye Deutschland, Rallye Deutschland and the 2007 Tour de Corse, Tour de Corse. In the overall standings, he placed third behind the two Swifts of Per-Gunnar Andersson (rally driver), Per-Gunnar Andersson and Urmo Aava. In the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prokop, Belgrade
Prokop ( sr-cyr, Прокоп) is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Savski Venac. The major facility in the neighborhood is the new Belgrade Centre railway station, opened for limited use in 2016. Due to the name of the main street in the old section of the neighborhood, and the name of the local community (sub-municipal administrative unit) which includes Prokop, the neighborhood's name is occasionally reported as Stjepan Filipović. Location Prokop is located at the southern edges of downtown Belgrade to which it is directly connected by the '' Kneza Miloša street''. It borders the area of former Zapadni Vračar on the north, Mostar and Senjak on the west and Dedinje on the south. It is bounded by three boulevards: ''Franše D'Eperea'' (named after general D'Esperey and in fact a part of A1 highway), ''Vojvode Putnika'' and ''Kneza Aleksandra Karađorđevića'' (named after Prince Alexandre). History ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gunnar Prokop
Gunnar Prokop (born 11 July 1940) is a former Austrian handball and track and field, athletics coach. He has previously been both president and coach for the handball club Hypo Niederösterreich. He is widely considered one of the best women's handball coaches of all time, but has been involved in controversy due to cheating as a coach and misogynistic remarks. Career Athletics Prokop started his career as an track and field coach at the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo, where he was the coach for Liese Sykora, who competed in Modern pentathlon, pentathlon. They married a year later in 1965. At the 1968 Olympics Liese Sykora-Prokop won a silver medal in the pentathlon, something Prokop has described as one of his best achievements. Handball In 1972 Prokop switched to women's handball, where he was involved in the creation of the Austrian club Hypo Niederösterreich, a club which he described as his "life work". During the 1980s he made the club into one of the best in the world. He won hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luke Prokop
Luke Prokop (born May 6, 2002) is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman for the Milwaukee Admirals of the American Hockey League as a prospect for the Nashville Predators of the National Hockey League (NHL), who selected him in the 2020 NHL Entry Draft. In 2021, Prokop came out as gay, becoming the first player under contract with an NHL team to do so. Playing career Prokop is from Edmonton, Alberta. He became a fan of Shea Weber, a right-handed defenceman, when he watched Weber playing ice hockey at the 2010 Winter Olympics for the Canadian men's national ice hockey team. Prokop became a fan of Weber's team, the Nashville Predators of the National Hockey League (NHL), and began wearing jersey number 6 in his honour. Prokop attended the Pursuit of Excellence Hockey Academy in Kelowna, British Columbia. The Calgary Hitmen of the Western Hockey League (WHL) selected Prokop with their first round selection, the seventh overall, of the 2017 WHL Bantam Draft. He played for C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skip Prokop
Ronald Harry "Skip" Prokop (December 13, 1943 – August 30, 2017) was a Canadian drummer, guitarist and keyboardist. He was also a band leader, was a founding member of the Canadian rock music groups the Paupers and Lighthouse. Early life Prokop was born in Hamilton, Ontario. He attended G.L. Armstrong elementary and Hill Park secondary schools. He was active in the Navy League and Sea Cadets, and at age 17 performed in a drum corps which won the Canadian National Individual Drumming Competition."Skip Prokop: Hamilton-born Lighthouse drummer dies at 73" ''The Hamilton Spectator'', Aug 31, 2017 by Graham Rockingham Career Prokop moved to Toronto and organized a band called the Spats, later called the Paupers, ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prokop The Great
Prokop the Great (, ) or Prokop the Bald or the Shaven (, ) (c. 1380 – 30 May 1434) was a Czech Hussite general and a prominent Taborite military leader during the Hussite Wars. On his mother's side, he came from a German patrician family living in Prague. Initially, Prokop was a member of the Utraquists (the moderate wing of the Hussites) and was a married priest (having received the tonsure early in life) who belonged to an eminent, partly German-speaking family from Prague. He studied in Prague, and then traveled for several years in foreign countries. On his return to Bohemia, though a priest and continuing to officiate as such, he became the most prominent leader of the advanced Hussite or Taborite forces during the latter part of the Hussite Wars. He was not the immediate successor of Jan Žižka as leader of the Taborites, as has been frequently stated, but he commanded the forces of Tabor when they obtained their great victories over the Germans and Catholics at Ú ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prokop The Lesser
Prokop may mean either of two Hussite generals, both of whom died in the 1434 battle of Lipan: * Prokop the Great * Prokop the Lesser Other people who bore the name Prokop: * Procopius, 6c historian * Saint Prokop, or Procopius of Sázava (died 1053), a Czech saint * Prokop, bishop of Kraków (1292–1294) * Adolf Prokop, German football referee * Bohumír Prokop, Czech handballer * František Prokop, Czech sport shooter * Gerhard Prokop, German football manager * Gert Prokop, German writer * Gunnar Prokop (born 1940), Austrian handball coach * Hubert Prokop (basketball), Czech basketball player * Joe Prokop (born 1960), American football player * Joe Prokop (halfback) (1921–1995), American football player * John Prokop (born 2001), American ice hockey player * Ladislav Prokop, Czech basketball player * Liese Prokop, Austrian athlete and politician * Luke Prokop (born 2002), Canadian ice hockey player * Martin Prokop, Czech rally driver * Matt Prokop, American actor * Sk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Procopius
Procopius of Caesarea (; ''Prokópios ho Kaisareús''; ; – 565) was a prominent Late antiquity, late antique Byzantine Greeks, Greek scholar and historian from Caesarea Maritima. Accompanying the Roman general Belisarius in Justinian I, Emperor Justinian's wars, Procopius became the principal Roman historian of the 6th century, writing the ''History of the Wars'', the ''Buildings'', and the ''Secret History''. Early life Apart from his own writings, the main source for Procopius's life is an entry in the ''Suda'',Suda pi.2479. See under 'Procopius' oSuda On Line a Byzantine Greek encyclopaedia written sometime after 975 which discusses his early life. He was a native of Caesarea Maritima, Caesarea in the Roman province, province of ''Palaestina Prima''. He would have received a conventional upper-class education in the Greek literature, Greek classics and rhetoric, perhaps at the famous Rhetorical School of Gaza, school at Gaza. He may have attended law school, possibly at La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Prokop
Matthew Ray Prokop (born July 29, 1990) is an American former actor. He is known for his roles as Jimmie "The Rocket Man" Zara in the Disney film '' High School Musical 3: Senior Year'' (2008) and Josh Rosen in the Disney Channel Original Movie '' Geek Charming'' (2011). Early life Prokop was born in Victoria, Texas, and moved to Los Angeles at the age of 16 to pursue his acting career. Career In 2011, Prokop was represented by Management 360 and APA. His first acting job was a brief appearance on ''Hannah Montana'' in 2007, followed by a walk-on role on ''The Office''. He guest starred on ''Medium'' (2009) as Kyle "K.C." Covington for one episode. Prokop landed a role in '' Furry Vengeance'' (2010), playing Brendan Fraser's son, and he played the role of Josh Rosen in the Disney Channel's '' Geek Charming'' (2011), based on author Robin Palmer's novel. In 2012, he appeared in an episode of ''Modern Family'', opposite then girlfriend and series regular Sarah Hyland. His la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Prokop
John Prokop (born May 13, 2001) is an American professional ice hockey defenceman for the Toronto Marlies of the American Hockey League (AHL) while under contract to the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League (NHL). He played college ice hockey at Union College. Playing career Junior Prokop began his junior career with the Omaha Lancers of the United States Hockey League (USHL) during the 2018–19 season, where he recorded four assists in 25 games. During the 2019–20 season, he started the season with the Muskegon Lumberjacks where he recorded one goal and one assist in 11 games. On November 14, 2019, he was traded to the Green Bay Gamblers in exchange for Dylan Wendt. He recorded one goal and six assists in 30 games for the Gamblers. He was named to the 2019 USHL/NHL Top Prospects Game. He then played two seasons for the Des Moines Buccaneers. During the 2020–21 season, he recorded one goal and 11 assists in 46 games. During the 2021–22 season, he recorded o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Prokop (halfback)
Joseph Michael Prokop (January 9, 1921 – April 29, 1995) was an American professional football halfback who played one season with the Chicago Rockets of the All-America Football Conference (AAFC). He played college football at the University of Notre Dame and Bradley University. Early life and college Joseph Michael Prokop was born on January 9, 1921, in Cleveland, Ohio. He attended Cathedral Latin High School in Cleveland. Prokop played college football for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish of the University of Notre Dame from 1940 to 1941. He also participated in track at Notre Dame. Prokop later played football for the Bradley Braves of Bradley University from 1946 to 1947. Professional career In May 1948, it was reported that Prokop was considering signing with the Chicago Rockets of the All-America Football Conference The All-America Football Conference (AAFC) was a major professional American football league that challenged the established National Football League (NFL ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liese Prokop
Liesel "Liese" Prokop-Sykora (27 March 1941 – 31 December 2006) was an Austrian athlete and, later in her life, a politician. She competed mainly in the pentathlon. Biography Born as Liese Sykora in Tulln District, Lower Austria, on 27 March 1941, she graduated from the University of Vienna with a degree in biology and sport. In 1965 she married her former coach, Gunnar Prokop. The couple had two sons and a daughter. in 1967, she became student world champion in Tokyo. She competed for Austria in the 1968 Summer Olympics held in Mexico City, Mexico in the Pentathlon where she won the silver medal. In 1969, she became European champion in Athens, breaking the world pentathlon record. In addition, she was Austrian champion in pentathlon, long jump, high jump, hurdles, relay and shot putting. Prokop began her political career in 1969 and became a member of the Parliament of Lower Austria. She served as regional minister from 1981 to 1992 and vice president of Lower A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
